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Grow Connecticut, Inc., an independent expenditure group that just paid nearly $200,000 to run ads opposing the re-election of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, was created last year by the campaign-finance law firm of Tom Foley, the Republican nominee for governor, after Foley's ties to another super PAC were exposed by an elections enforcement case. The group is run by Liz Kurantowicz, the former state Republican Party official who managed Voters for Good Government, the independent-expenditure group that ran afoul of the State Elections Enforcement Commission last year by paying Foley's pollster, an expense that the commission says Foley's campaign should have incurred. Grow...

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